Graham on Trump vs. Cruz: Like choosing between being shot or poisoned

“I couldn’t disagree with her more but she has played the game now for years”, Beck said of Palin.

Trump also lamented that media outlets rarely show the large crowds that come to his rallies, referring to the camera crews at the event as “sleazebags”. Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America?’ ” Palin said at a Trump rally in Tulsa, Okla.

Bob Dole, the former U.S. senator and the party’s 1996 nominee, has joined a growing chorus of Republican voices speaking out against the freshman Texas senator, who has brought together conservatives and evangelical Christians with his bellicose anti-Washington rhetoric. So when I use the word outrageous to describe her behavior, I’m giving her probably more benefit of the doubt than I should.

If either of the two leading GOP presidential candidates win the nomination, South Carolina Sen.

The author of “The Art of the Deal” suggested that Cruz, largely boxed out of Senate deal-making circles, can’t operate effectively in office.

His resentment towards Mr Cruz stems from remarks the Texan made in 2014 when he criticised Mr Dole for not standing for conservative principles. “That’s what this country is about really, isn’t it?”

He repeated that refrain later Thursday as he presented himself as the kind of leader who could bridge both wings of the party.

This might be a reference to a Newsmax interview in which Trump was quoted panning Romney’s “mean-spirited” approach to immigration and criticising the Republican nominee’s “crazy” advocacy of “self-deportation”.

I think we’re getting to a moment where there’s a scenario that one can see. “And it makes me realize, more than ever, it is now or never for the sake of America’s finest that we have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them”. “He can advance that position, but he doesn’t get to pretend that it’s not amnesty if he’s legalizing 12 million people [who are] here illegally”. The hotel is owned by Republican Party mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. The anchor said he and others observed Trump appeared to be restless.

“So let’s just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to”, Graham said in a less than stellar endorsement of Bush, who he publicly came out in support of last week and has been campaigning alongside.

Colvin reported from West Des Moines, Iowa.